Are school field trips what they use to be ?
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WOW I was just thinking about field trips the other day. How it would be great if my boss put field trip forms on our desk, and we had to fax it to our parents to get it signed, and when we got there there would be paper bag lunches, and our parents had to give us spending money. Man those were the days. Except I got banned from field trips cuz I got lost at sea world cuz i wanted to pet the dolphins and my teacher didn't want to wait in line, and my class left, but I waited in line and did it. Felt like a womans leg when its starting to get to that point where she needs to shave them, and its all prickly, and wet.
But anyways back on topic, yeah schools want to drain our pockets for these outlandish field trips which aren't really as educating as they used to be.
Obviously not, there was an articel about a field trip that went to an abortion clinic. Sick people, just sick
i guess, i always went on crappy field trips. one field trip i had was to clean garbage in sum tick infested park that was 2 hours away from where i live.
School budgeting is extremely limited for such trips. The focus, particularly under NCLB are Reading, Writing, and Math. I know elementary schools that are too strapped for time and funds to focus on other essentials like Science and Math. Trips are extraneous. They do not contribute to hard test scores and without the test scores a school doesn't get funding.
So no they are not getting the opportunities of children before. We really need to come up with creative out of the box thoughts regarding education solutions!
No they don't get the opportunities, but field trips are not part of that because we simply pay the entire price of those, in our kids' schools. It is gifted programs, languages for English speakers, music, PE, electives and variety of classes for our own children that suffers.
When I was a kid we went all sorts of places. We had a trip in 8th grade to Sacramento (from San Jose) to visit the capital, etc... We had lots of great trips and we learned things that can not be taught in the classroom.
There are no field trips like that anymore. My son's orchestra had a big trip every year (e.g., NYC & Disney World) but that is very unusual. These trips were over $750 each and I went as a chaperone!
My son goes on really cool field trips...but then again...private schools are better :)
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